Parker Estate Block 95 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Parker Estate Block 95 2022

Parker Estate Block 95 2022
$65, 14.5%, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot from Coonawarra. The first word that springs to mind, after your first sip, is robust. This is a muscular, ample-bodied red wine with blackcurrant, dark chocolate, tobacco and boysenberry characters flooding throughout. There’s a distinct firmness to the finish, which gives the wine a real flex; it’s pumped up with flavour but it’s tense and taut at the same time. This wine is therefore hearty and tannic but also neat. It’s good now and it has a future ahead of it. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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